Bishop Giuseppe Ma Yinglin of Kunming, president of the Chinese bishops’ conference and vice president of the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, ordains Bishop Antonio Li Hui as co-adjutor bishop of Pingliang on July 28. (Photo supplied)
By LiCAS.news
Jul 29 2021
The Catholic Church in China ordained a new bishop for the Diocese of Pingliang in the country’s north-central province of Gansu on July 28.
Bishop Antonio Li Hui was ordained co-adjutor bishop of Pingliang by Bishop Giuseppe Ma Yinglin of Kunming, president of the Chinese bishops’ conference and vice president of the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association.
A report on Vatican News said Bishop Li is the fifth Chinese priest to receive episcopal consecration after the signing of the Provisional Accord between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China on the nomination of bishops.
The new prelate was born in 1972 in Meixian County (Shaanxi). He entered the preparatory seminary of Pingliang diocese in 1990 and graduated from the Chinese Catholic Theological and Philosophical Institute in 1996.
In the same year, he was ordained priest and later took further studies at Renmin University.
Matteo Bruni, the director of the Holy See Press Office, said Pope Francis made the nomination for the ordination of Bishop Li on January 11, 2021.
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